Table 1: New Criteria for Inclusion in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

According to New Criteria for Inclusion in the Directory of Open Access Journals (doaj.org/faq#selectioncriteria), in order to be listed in the DOAJ, a journal must meet the following criteria:

• Journal will be asked to provide basic information (title, ISSN, etc.), contact information, and information about journal policies
• Journal is registered with SHERPA/RoMEO
• Journal has an editorial board with clearly identifiable members (including affiliation information)
• Journal publishes a minimum of five articles per year (does not apply for new journals)
• Allows use and reuse at least at the following levels (as spec ified in the Open Access Spectrum, plos.org/about/open- access/howopenisit):
• Full text, metadata, and citations of articles can be crawled and accessed with permission (Machine Readability Level 4)
• Provides free readership rights to all articles immediately upon publication (Reader Rights Level 1)
• Reuse is subject to certain restrictions; no remixing (Reuse Rights Level 3)
• Allow authors to retain copyright in their article with no restrictions (Copyrights Level 1)
• Author can post the final, peer-reviewed manuscript version (postprint) to any repository or website (Author Posting Rights Level 2)